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Covid-19 hospitalization in Massachusetts has risen eightfold since Sept. 1
By adamg on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 10:17pm
Massachusetts today reported 1,607 people are in the hospital due to Covid-19, another record since the start of the fall surge.
The state also reported 49 deaths from the virus today - down from 89 yesterday but up from the 4 reported on Sept. 1.
Daily hospitalization numbers have increased every day, save one, since Oct. 25.
Both daily hospitalization and death numbers remain lower than those seen at the peak of the spring surge - even as the total number of daily cases now far exceeds daily numbers seen in April or May - but both have been increasing in recent weeks. On Sept. 1, the state reported just 169 people in the hospital due to Covid-19.
Hospitalization numbers since April 4:
The latest state stats show that 84% of overall hospital beds - and 80% of ICU beds - in Boston-area hospitals are now occupied. On Sept. 1, 62% of Boston-area hospital beds were occupied.
The percentage of people testing positive in Massachusetts is currently around 7.75%, compared to roughly 1.5% at the beginning of September.
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“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Top 3 Covid months for new cases:
1.) Nov 67,806
2.) Apr 53,416
3.) Dec 47,805 (12/1-12/10 ten-day total)
Jun+Jul+Aug+Sep combined four-month total = 40,235.
The director of the CDC, Dr Redfield, said that the US should expect the number of daily deaths to continue to exceed Pearl Harbor and 9/11 for the next 60-90 days. This is a range of 150,000 - 300,000 deaths in the next 2-3 months.
Now imagine if the same
Now imagine if the same amount of vigilance was put forth for other preventable deaths in the commonwealth
Imagine if cancer and heart disease were highly infectious
Leading causes of deaths of MA (2017 stats from CDC):
12,934 cancer
12,140 heart disease
10,936 COVID-19 (2020 so far)
3,821 accidents
Which one of these is highly infectious and currently spreading rapidly through the population?
Can you catch cancer from riding the T to work or contract heart disease from eating/working in a restaurant one time?
Think deeper
Think deeper . Perhaps as a society we could also flatten the other curves we’ve created
Here’s the same buzz words.
https://www.climateworks.org/blog/flattening-the-curve-on-super-pollutan...
Non infectious and infectious disease commonalities
Economic, social, and racial inequity is a strong factor in both.
Also a strong factor in the health impacts of climate change.
Improving equity is one powerful way of reducing health impacts on populations regardless of the nature of the threat.
Totally agree
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Context?
People die daily and in this pattern always. How do the so-called excess deaths compare to the like months in the 1968 Pandemic H3N2 per 100k persons? Might absolute numbers defining any pandemic be misleading some readers because population is so much greater now? Also, how does COVID-19 compare to tuberculosis globally today? We all know the first tuberculosis vaccines came about in the 1920s. Let's suppose "too many" people still die of/with tuberculosis today. What is your end game in your COVID beliefs, assuming vaccines "won't help enough" in the context of your method of interpreting data?
But the hospitalization rate
But the hospitalization rate is very low if you exclude all of the people in the hospital.
/s
The next 15 days are crucial
Sarcasm off.
Why do MA,CT, NY, NJ, the states who are unquestioning following the science, have the worse death rates in the country?
Three simple words, one emphasized...
"BUSINESS as usual"
Because the first wave hit east coast hard
The current Covid death rate in those states is lower than national avg, but as we all know, the spring was brutal hereabouts. These charts from statista.com of regional numbers over time show it pretty clearly.